Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.